I was finally able the goal of finishing the book within the year! I'd like to take this time to thank all of my patreons on here for all of your support, it is greatly appreciated :). I wish you all a happy and fantastic 2023!
Here is the link for the whole of book on google docs! I have also uploaded a version a very basic epub version. ...
2022-12-30 10:18:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 46 - A New Companion
“She blesses the poor by letting them lose their favored beast, only to then aid them in finding it again.”
- Attributed to Cardinal Mauros at the Conclave of the Righteous AC 681
All in agreement, we exited the building. Following Taciano’s advice, we headed towards ...
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Initial Sketch of Cillis, the blacksmith from the Soot Stained Pig.
2022-12-28 03:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 45 - Beaurocracy
Bibsis, Rainspeakers, or Callers are only found in one sacred pond that grows into a great lake with the coming of the rains in the Grieving Lands. To gaze upon them is said to be akin to receiving a blessing from the Goddess herself.
-The Fanciful Travels by Beron de Laney 376 AC 2022-12-27 06:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick merry Christmas to all my patrons new and old. Your help has been greatly appreciated in helping me make a fantasy world for others to enjoy and helping me become a better writer!
Enjoy the holidays :)
Mesa
2022-12-24 12:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostSeas rose, and continents cracked under the energies that ravaged the world. The sky itself burned in places that scoured the very ground beneath of all life. Great volcanos spewed mountains of dark ash into the air covering the world in primordial darkness. In the deep places of ...
2022-12-23 11:44:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe High Elves in their hubris think themselves at the pinnacle of all things cultural, yet when was the last time their bards composed a new song? Their poets' new verse? Their tailors a new cut of fashion? Theirs is a legacy of stagnation that permeates all aspects of a society that has not se...
2022-12-20 01:04:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe short-lived races too were ravaged by the horrors of the great beyond, their delicate psyches overwhelmed by the total fear of the end of all things. Those who had the gift of magic were consumed in a conflagration of magical energies which started a chain reaction throughout the re...
2022-12-16 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Final Ansan artwork. Will be added to Chapter 8. Enjoy!
2022-12-16 13:02:52 +0000 UTC View PostEvery strike must be filled with the deadly intent of damaging your opponent. Your attacks your defense, your defense your attack. You must be the discord in your opponent’s sword song.
- The Living Sword by Fen Vaigorus Kaldari Swordmaster circa 520 AC
We ...
2022-12-12 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 40 - A Measure of Vengeance
Elven mages felt the horror of the void for the first time as it touched their minds. Many of their number went mad and unleashed the sum total of their magical energies. Those who kept their sanity failed to shield the rest of their brothers and sisters, their own defenses overwhel...
Chapter 39 - Sign of the Soot Stained Pig
It is better to walk the path alone than in the company of the foolish.
- Quassian Aphorism
In the end, I had taken watch for most of the night, my Drain spell keeping me revitalized. Kidu only relieved me of my watch in the early hours of the morning wh...
Chapter 38 - Practice Makes Perfect
Research into the necromantic arts, sped up by the twins need and necessity, had opened dark channels into another plane of existence. Here the sibilant denizens of the void promised a quick end to the war with something that was translated by the magical researchers as the ‘Seed ...
Here is the latest draft of the Ansan artwork, enjoy!
2022-11-30 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37 - Return to Ansan
The sword is a truly noble weapon for the traveler. A good blade is perfectly balanced for both offense and defense and is the symbol of an honest man. A man is judged by the quality of the weapon on his hip.
- The Fanciful Travels by Beron de Laney 376 A.C
2022-11-28 15:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 36 - Rules of the Road
With casualties mounting on both sides, the Republic began to lose its appetite for war. Even with necromancy filling the holes in the army ranks, the constant attrition of war was beginning to wear away at the people, with some even demanding that they heed the elve’s earlier offers o...
Chapter 35 - All the Bases
“A true master of the sword need never use his sword at all.”
- The Living Sword by Fen Vaigorus Kaldari Swordmaster circa 520 AC
Unluckily for us, the moon was high and bright among the veil of stars and cast a silvery light. The charcoal piles continued to emit t...
Chapter 34 - Blind Faith
The Guild in the frontier regions is nothing more than a collection of opportunistic bandits, thieves, and failed mercenaries. They deem themselves monster hunters, heroes all, and the shield of the common peasantry. Most shocking of all is that they allow women and whores in their ranks! But ...
Here is an initial sketch of the vista of Ansan.
2022-11-16 15:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33 - Interruption
Too much of any one thing can lead one down the path of the many-coloured myriad loss.
- Well-known Qisnian aphorism
Something was applying pressure to my arm, moving it to the left and right, up and down slowly in more forceful motions. I opened my eyes quickly thinkin...
Chapter 32 - Priorities
With the birth of the Bone-Dragon, the Dragons were horrified and unwilling to play any further part in the campaign. With the loss of one of their number, they felt the first pangs of fear of newfound mortality. The great lizards left the short-lived races to their fate and flew back across the oc...
Chapter 31 - Blessings & Curses
Slowly, like a grave flower blossoming the dark energies flowed into the great lizard’s cadaver sloughing now rotting flesh from thick pristine white dragon bone. A new nightmare was born, arising with the stench of a freshly turned grave and all the majesty of the winged tyrants ...
Chapter 30 - The Power to Choose
A lucky ballista bolt shot from atop one of the border forts was able to fell one of the lesser dragons from the sky, piercing it through the heart. The bespelled adamantine tip punching through inches of rock hard scale and thick muscle. The mages of Arastia ecstatic having acquired a...
Here is the complete version of 'On the Cataclysm' (by an unknown Quassian Scholar circa 103 AC). This was originally going to be presented in the form of a prologue at the begining of 'The Grieving Lands,' before I decided to break it up between chapters. Enjoy!
The war had started at the behest of the elves when they...
Chapter 29 - Divine Grace
Though a small nation, it was a nation of free thinkers where great strides had been made in the fields of magic. Even so, their mages, who were growing fewer, could not protect them all from the constant barrage from the skies. Desperate, the Republic sanctioned the use of a newly researched...
Finished versions of Grieving Lands chapters are being uploaded to Royal Road every day this week, come check them out!
Thank you to all supporting me on Patreon. An exclusive early version of Chapter 29 will be available next Friday.
Chapter 28 - Loss
“There is always sun above the darkest of storm clouds.”
- The motto of the Avian Guard.
“Only one thing could be responsible for this whirlwind of destruction…an orc in a berserk heat,” the dwarf answered stoically in response, “combined with the pain from t...
Chapter 27 - A Bid for True Freedom
So incensed by the refusal of what he thought was a reasonable offer of amnesty the High King of the Elves begged once more with the Dragon Queen for aid, offering a dragon’s egg weight in precious silvery mithril. Greed sinking its claws into her reptilian heart, she commanded tha...
2022-10-11 06:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Enjoy this new artwork of the MC's party camping in the forest.
2022-10-07 21:34:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26 - The Darkest Hour
Most of the creatures found in the deep places of the earth are best left undisturbed. Most of those underground denizens are pale and blind, living most of their lives in eternal darkness. Many of the creatures found there are of fearsome aspect, their other senses of smell, hearing, and ...
2022-10-07 21:27:09 +0000 UTC View Post